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Discover how connecting classrooms across countries can energise language education. Join Lingua Connect students and teachers to explore and celebrate collaborative authentic learning. What happens when students learn each other’s languages while creating something together? Join students and teachers from Leeds and partner universities in Brazil and Mexico to explore how Collaborative Online International Learning...
Did you know there are Wikipedias in over 300 different languages, each with its own dedicated community? English Wikipedia is by far the biggest with more than 7 million articles and 270,000 active users, while other European languages near the top of the table include German, French, Spanish and Italian. At the other end of...
What happens when languages travel, meet and change? Drawing on her own experience of growing up speaking Punjabi in Yorkshire, Kashmir Kaur explores Punjabi as a diasporic language across places, generations and popular culture. Through maps, personal stories, Punjabi words, Gurmukhi and music - from bhangra and British Asian fusion to Panjabi MC, Diljit Dosanjh...
Drawing on a chapter from her non-fiction, Back Up North, Ally Shepherd, explores the rich variety of accents and dialects across Northern England, from Scouse and Geordie to the speech of Cheshire, Lancashire, and – of course – Yorkshire. We will examine how language reflects the region’s identity and history of industry and migration, considering...
Film Screening of English Vinglish (Hindi with English subtitles) followed by a discussion on multilingualism, identity, belonging and the power of language to connect cultures by Dr Priyanka Singh Join us for a screening of English Vinglish (Hindi with English subtitles), an uplifting film that explores the relationship between language, confidence, and identity. The story...